1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. What is the connection between the defeat of the Highlanders at Culloden and the clearances? | Culloden fanned the distruct between highlands and lowlands and lead to the influs of lowland landlords who were determind to moderise highland life/ farming. | 2. When did the Clearances start and end? | mid C18th to mid C19th | 3. What was life like for the highlanders- how did they farm/ survive? | Grew their own food, lived off the land, cattle and chickens for milk, meat and eggs. | 4. Why did the Duchess of Sutherland want to remove the tenants? | In order to increase the profits on the estate and to prevent famine. | 5. How important was the Industrial Revolution in causing the Highland Clearances? | It created demand for wool for the new textile factories and therefore encouraged the farming of sheep | 6. What happened in Stathnever in 1813? | Patrick Sellar came to clear families off the land on the orders of the Duchess of Sutherland | 7. Where were the people initially moved to after leaving Strathnever? | to the coast where industries and jobs had been set up | 8. Why were the highland people upset by the clearances? | Many had lived on the land for centuries and felt they had a right to continue to live there. | 9. Why might the highlanders feel they had to leave their homes and villages- push factors? | Famine, high rents, destruction of their homes and a Hard life. | 10. Why might the highlanders feel they wanted to leave their homes and villages- pull factors? | Better opportunities in cities with higher pay and more social life and land/ new life overseas. | 11. What tactics did Sellar and the men employed to clear the villages/houses use? | posted eviction notices (often in Enlglish) then arrived in force to evict tenants often burning the roof and beams to prevent people returning | 12. Why was 1814 known as the year of the burnings? | The year when the Sutherland Clearances reached their height and large numbers were evicted, crofts burnt and the hot weather made the fires more dramatic | 13. What was Patrick Sellar accused of? | Culpable homicide of an old lady who died from shock as her house was set on fire. | 14. Why are the Sutherland Clearances so infamous? | very thorough - large numbers of families moved and use of force | 15. What evidence is there that Patrick Sellar was guilty of murder? | indictment which lists all he was accused of at his trial in 1816 | 16. What evidence is there that Patrick Sellar was just used as a scapegoat for the policy of the Sutherland estate? | Hisotrians say that there is evidence that he actually ordered the rescue of the old lady once he realised what had happened. | 17. What evidence did Donald MacLeod present about the Clearances in his book "Gloomy Memories"? | Very negative picture of the destruction of communities and the harsh methods that were used. | 18. What happened to Patrick Sellar after he lost his job with the Sutherland estate? | Became a wealthy sheep farmer |
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